by Carolyn Russell There was a noticeable shift during NYYC Race Week at Newport. Not just in our results, but in who we are as a team. For the first time, we felt less like a group of individual sailors racing an IC37 and more like a team racing one
Over the next few days, AYC member Daniel Escudero will be racing the last installment of the Sailing Grand Slam series, the Long Beach Olympic Classes Regatta (OCR). He is coming off of strong performances, first at Kiel Week, where he finished 7th out of 120 sailors, and then most
This is the final weekly post about the history of JAYC. See you at the JAYC100 Celebration! As JAYC approached its 100th birthday, the program continued to grow and thrive. Though the COVID summer of 2020 forced all junior sailing to reimagine itself with sailors grouped into “pods,” more sailors
This is the eighth weekly installment about the history of JAYC, leading up to the JAYC100 Celebration at AYC later in June. The 2010s were a particularly exciting decade for JAYC, as Sailing Director Kevin Broome joined AYC in 2010 and oversaw several strategic changes. Under Kevin’s leadership (with
This is the seventh installment in a series about the history of JAYC in anticipation of the JAYC100 Celebration later this month. JAYCers celebrated the beginning of the 21st century by continuing what they had been doing for the previous seven decades – having fun on the water, building character, racing
This is the sixth weekly installment in a series about the history of JAYC, leading up to the JAYC100 Celebration at AYC in June. JAYC roared through the 1990s and toward the millennium. JAYCers continued to sail Optimists, Blue Jays, Lasers, and Laser Radials. The International 420 was replaced by
Happy Memorial Day Weekend! This is the fifth installment in a series about the history of JAYC, leading up to the JAYC100 celebration at AYC in June. The 1980s were another fabulous decade for JAYC. As AYC celebrated its 100th anniversary and JAYC its 60th, JAYCers continued to learn to
This is the fourth installment of posts about the history of JAYC as we lead up to the JAYC100 Celebration at AYC in June. The 1970s were a great decade for AYC and a great decade for JAYC. JAYCers continued to shine in big boats, as AYC won the Dorade
The 2026 American Yacht Club Spring Regatta brought three different kinds of breeze. 48 boats registered for the Friday coastal course, 20 boats for the weekend windward/leeward course, and 37 for the weekend coastal racing. Friday's coastal race was a delicate affair, with light, inconsistent breeze that
This is the third installment in a weekly series leading up the JAYC 100 celebration at AYC in June. JAYC in the 1960s Both AYC and JAYC continued to thrive in the 1960s. As JAYC continued to grow, JAYC also expanded more formally into sailing big boats, often coached by
This is the second in a series about the history of JAYC, to be published in the weeks leading up to the JAYC100 Celebration at AYC in June. AYC entered the 1940s having just rebuilt and repaired much of the property after the destructive hurricane of September, 1938. And then,
This is the first in a series about the history of JAYC — the American Yacht Club's Junior program. There will be a new post each week in anticipation of the JAYC100 Celebration at AYC in June. In January 1920, AYC voted to drop “steam yachting” from the club’